About Nayland Blake
Nayland Blake is an artist, writer and educator. Born in New York Hospital in 1960, he currently resides in Brooklyn. His work is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, Fred, London and Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco. His work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, The Studio Museum of Harlem, LA MoCa, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the DeYoung Museum, among others. He has exhibited through out the United States and Europe. As a writer his work has appeared in Interview Magazine, Artforum, Out, and OutLook. He is the author of numerous catalog essays. In 1994 he co-curated with Lawrence Rinder the exhibition In a Different Light, the first major museum exhibition to examine the impact of queer artists on contemporary art.
Last year he finally paid off his student loans.
He is currently employed as the Chair of the ICP/Bard Masters program in Advanced Photographic Studies at the International Center of Photography.
For the past three years he has shared his life with Lehigh, a very self-possessed Boston terrier.
Unless otherwise credited all photographs on this site are taken by him.
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Oh and he is me. If you have an interest in what I do, own a piece of mine or have any other connection, I’d love to hear from you. You can contact me via naylandblake@naylandblake.net or just use the form below
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Nayland,
I am going to show your site to art students at MICA tomorrow. I am giving workshops to create websites for artists. And want to emphasize the open-source, DIY possibilities in making a website. Artist websites that are more than thumbnails and resumes. And yours is perfect.
And I noticed that your contact form shortcode is showing up as text [contact-form 1 "Contact form 1"] and not as a contact form. You may want to change this. I find sometimes it works better to type in the short code rather than copy and paste, though it could be something else.
thanks
Daniel
Daniel Wiener
8 Feb 10 at 12:39 pm
Hi! I found your site because you linked to me … thanks so much for the exposure. I'm really honored that an artist and writer of your stature has chosen to do so.
Clarisse
5 Jun 10 at 8:28 am
So nice of you to say, Clarisse – it’s been a pleasure to read your blog which I found after hearing you speak at KinkforAll.
naylandblake
5 Jun 10 at 1:07 pm
Thanks for the kind words, Clarisse. I've been informed and delighted and challenged by your writing, so I was happy to try to send some other folks your way.
naylandblake
8 Jun 10 at 9:09 pm